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    Dazed’s New OC Candidate List for the Oregon Ducks

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    On 11/28/2022 at 8:18 AM, DazeNconfused said:

    You could be right. I still think these last two losses by a combined 7 points with the in game decisions Lanning made are going to be something he hears about from Mullens and Phil.

    At the beginning of this season pretty much everyone agreed that, with Lanning being a first year HC, there were going to be bumps and learning experiences along the way. People were expecting 3 or 4 losses. 

     

    Now, at the end of the regular season, with 10 wins a real possibility (especially with the lower bowl bid), we see that we did indeed lose 3 games... with two of them being by a combined total of 7 points. If those two losses would have been to BYU and WSU by the same combined total of 7 points, this conversation would be very different.

     

    DL has made some of the very kind of mistakes that he was expected to make at the beginning of the year. Quite different that the previous administration, DL has shown that he can learn from his mistakes. That gives much reason for optimism. 

     

    I trust DL to pull another good name out of his notebook to fill the OC role.

     

     

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    Canzano: Ducks-Beavers Rivalry Name-Game is Tired

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    Down through history there have been "civil wars" all over the world. A civil war is when two factions in the same country are fighting militarily for control of the country.

     

    I moved to Oregon as an adult (I immigrated legally, as I married a native born Oregonian). I always thought that the civil war game was so named because it was Oregonians fighting Oregonians on the gridiron for football supremacy of Oregon. The United States civil war - The War Between the States" - never entered my mind. Nor did slavery, nor race relations in any way. I just always thought Oregonians fighting Oregonians.

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    The Head Coach is Brilliant...When?

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    I'm totally with you here Charles. I was thinking the same just reading the different thread titles. Glad you had the guts to say it, because I wasn't going to.

     

    About the onside kick... Right off the bat with my surprise I thought it wasn't the best idea so soon after the UCLA game. I was glad that it was at least not the same exact kick (different direction, etc.).

     

    But then another thought came as the announcers were discussing it.

      - Washington was moving the ball so well that whether or not they started on the 50 yard line or back at the 25, it didn't seem to make much difference... BUT...

      - Time was running out! If UW would have started on the 25 and we "bent-ed but not not broke-ed" we would have given up the 3 points with no time to score ourselves!

      - With the lost onside kick we effectively skipped the bending part so that we could get right into the not breaking part - with less field to defend... therefore coming up with a possession with more time on the clock. Time enough to score.

     

    Did it all work out? No.  BUT, my point is that even if we lost the onside kick (the probable outcome), it may have still been the wisest decision.

     

    And if we recover the onside kick... GRAVY! We get a possession with enough time to score without giving up the 3 points first!

     

    Almost a win-win... but not, because we failed to score.

    But did we really give up that much to UW by giving them the ball a little past midfield instead of back on the 25????

     

     

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    Third Down Defense Musings

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    On 11/9/2022 at 5:33 PM, AnotherOD said:

    Aren't you pretty much assuring your high powered offense spends more time on the sidelines, as your opponent methodically gobbles up yards (and clock)?

    Scoring efficiency. One of the things said about the UCLA game was that with Lanning forcing UCLA to eat up a bunch of clock on their possessions, especially in the 2nd half when they were trailing. This meant that UCLA was never going to get enough possessions to come back and win. 

     

    In the second half of that game, the Ducks were taking minutes off the clock on their drives... and they were forcing UCLA to take minutes off the clock on their drives. (You know that CK would love to score in less than 2 minutes.)

     

    If you look at time of possession in our games, in most of them Oregon has more time of possession. That means that Oregon's offense IS on the field more than their defense is. Oregon's average time of possession this year is 31:33 while their opponents are averaging 28:26.

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